Summer 2024:
Date | (Provisional) Time | Name | (Provisional) Title | Discussant | Chair |
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30th May | 12:00 EDT | N/A | Conference Debrief: Why The Anthropology of Sport Matters | N/A | Ben |
13th June | 12:00 BST | Ben Hildred | Paper Discussion: ‘Testing’ things out: Navigating change and the status quo in a Sri Lankan cricket team. | Sean | |
27th June | 12:00 EDT | Eilis Lanclus | Paper Discussion: ‘”You’ve been chicked!”: The Gendered Nature of Endurance in Ultra-Trail Running and Walking’. | Ben | |
11th July | 12:00 BST | Leo Hopkinson | Book Chapter: ‘Being the best: On the performance of aspiration’ | Kika | |
25th July | 12:00 EDT | Arthur Gaillard | Paper Discussion: Sport for Development’s Nation-State Monolingualism | Sean |
Spring 2024:
Date | (Provisional) Time | Name | (Provisional) Title | Discussant | Chair |
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11th January | 12:00 GMT | Loes Oudenhuijsen | Levelling the playing field: women’s queer futures in football and beyond | Ben | |
25th January | 12:00 EST | Francesco Fanoli | Playing dangerously: reproducing and displacing heroic and entrepreneurial masculinity in Senegalese wrestling with punches. | Sean | |
8th February | 12:00 GMT | Xiaojie Tian | Childhood Play In Maasai Society | Kika | |
22nd February | 12:00 EST | Sean Heath | Good Skills: Learning to play well in outdoor swimming | Kika | |
7th March | 12:00 GMT | Will Lloyd | Mountain spaces of possibility: Trail running as world-building in Nepal | Ben | |
21st March | 12:00 EST | Mariann Vaczi | Book Presentation: Catalonia’s Human Towers | Ben | |
4th April | 12:00 GMT | Santram Antil | Sahi Samay (The Right Time) & Sahi Taknik (The Correct Technique): Making of the Wrestler in Haryana (North India) | Ben | |
18th – 19th April | GMT | N/A | INSA Conference! | N/A | N/A |
Autumn 2023:
Name | (Provisional) Title | Discussant | Chair | |
31st August | N/A | Why the Anthropology of Sport Matters – Discussion about EASA statement. | Sean | |
14th Sept | Mike Crawley & Uros Kovac | ‘Vitamins,’ Shortcuts and Athletic Citizenship in Ethiopia and Cameroon: Considering Sporting Ethics Beyond Biomedicine. | Ben | |
28th Sept | Tom Fabian | Traditional Indigenous Games and Environmental Stewardship in Oceania | Kika | |
12th Oct | Henrike Neuhaus | Sean | ||
26th Oct | Leo Hopkinson | Monograph Chapter – ‘On Being the Best’ | Ben | |
9th Nov | Jasmin Seijbel | The sound of rivalry/hate: Singing about ‘Jews’ in Dutch football fandom | Kika | |
23rd Nov | Dario Nardini | Demotic Sports Histories | Mariann Vaczi | Sean |
7th Dec | N/A | Discussion of INSA Conference | Ben |
Summer 2023:
Name | (Provisional) Title | Discussant | Chair | |
27th April | Ben Hildred | ‘Re-Reflective’ Knowledge: The Iterative Cycle of Digitally Mediated Embodiment | / | Sean |
11th May | Sean Heath | Banter as Linguistic Play | / | Ben |
25th May | N/A | ‘Human Playground’ docuseries discussion | / | Kika |
8th June | Gwyneth Talley | Book chapter for Doing Anthropology in a Sporting World | / | Ben |
22nd June | Open Slot | Please be in touch! | / | Kika |
6th July | Sarah Jacobs | “You know, They Didn’t Always Put Spandex in Jeans”: Athletes, Agency, and Tailored Bodies | Sean |